About Us

In 2010, Babson recognized that additional resources and expertise would be needed to achieve our objective of becoming a leader in campus sustainability.

Babson engaged GreenerU, Inc. - an innovative higher education-focused sustainability and energy services company - to assist in establishing and operating our first dedicated Sustainability Office. The office is located prominently in the Reynolds Campus Center and it serves as the nexus of sustainability on campus. The office serves the following functions:

• Connects sustainability activities and programs around campus into a unified program.

• Communicates within the Babson community about sustainability activities on and off campus, with particular focus on sharing infrastructure and operational improvements with the community.

• Helps students, staff and faculty develop and deploy sustainability projects and programs
• Develops and deploys programs that improve or enhance the sustainability of the Babson campus.

• Tracks key performance metrics and progress and reports to external evaluations in order to showcase Babson sustainability and reveal opportunities.

The Sustainability Office runs or coordinates the following programs, which you can read more about in the Involvement sections of "Green Campus."

• Student Eco Reps
• Staff Eco Leaders
• Sustainability Fair
• Advancing Babson Sustainability Task Forces
• Sustainability Tracking, Rating & Assessment System (STARS)

In addition, the Sustainability team coordinates and implements sustainability related campaigns each year. Here are some campaigns we have run or are currently running:

Environmental Action Workshop Series: Organized, structured workshops for students and staff on becoming environmental change agents on campus.

Campus-Wide Eco Challenges: Mini behavior challenges designed to raise awareness and increase sustainability participation. Example include the Zero Waste Challenge and the Unplugged Challenge.

Eco Reps Directed Campaign: A campaign designed and implemented by the Babson EcoReps and guided by the Sustainability Office. This campaign is targeted at changing a behavior on campus that will impact environmental sustainability or institutionalizing sustainability in the Babson campus and culture.

Partners

Sustainability at Babson is accomplished by the collaboration of many individuals and entities on and off campus.

Our list of Partners continues to grow.

Babson Sustainability Steering Committee

President’s Office

Facilities Management

Purchasing Office

Office of Campus Life

Residence Living

Information Technology & Services (ITSD)

College Marketing

Finance Division

Academic Affairs

Undergraduate School Dean’s Office

Council on Inclusiveness

Office of International Programs

The Lewis Institute

The Bernon Center

Special Events

Green Tower

Babson Energy and Environment Club

Net Impact

Green Alumni Forum

Ashoka U

Clean U

The Organic Gardening Group

Sightlines

Sodexo Campus Services (Food Services)

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Education (AASHE)

Northeast College Sustainability Consortium (NECSC)

MassRecycle

Babson-Olin-Wellesley Partnership for Sustainability

Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)

Campus Compact

Massachusetts Schools Sustainability Coordinators Roundtable (MSSCOR)

College and University Recycling Coalition

APPA: The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers

Imagine H2O

Aspen Institute